Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-27
Gathered From Our Neighbers.

Our broom corn buyers say there will
be about 800 tons more brush shipped
from Sterling this year than there was
ast.-Sterling Bulletin.
There is an immense amount of wheat
and rye sown in the western part of the
state this fall, and the farmers out
there feel sure of big returns next year.
We hope they will realize their fondest
pectatiODs.-Scandia Journal
Blue grass has firm hold ON eastern
Kansas. 1t will not be many years be-
fore the entire state will be noted for its
bluegrass pastures. The sand hills of
Western Kansas will be among our
richest bluegrass fields.-Atchison Pat
riot.
Two pretty and intelligent girls are
lying at the point of death in an Ohio
town from the effects of poison taken
into the System from a face powder
which they had been using. A great
many of those preparations are better
calculated to produce clear, white
complexion upon tombstone than up
on woman Exchange.
Personal ownership of fine stock, the
understanding of it's value will do more
to develope in the youth liking for the
farm and broad progressive spirit in
connection with farming than perhaps
anything else. Even liberal educa-
ton will do less toward making an en-
thusiastic farmer, filled with the better
side of his chosen business, unless it is
accompanied by associating with the
higher types Of domestic animals
Prairie Farmer.
Kansas is still ahead. She furnished
Forepaugh's mammoth show the larg-
est OK in the world. 1t weighed 1880
pounds and it is claimed it can be
made to weigh 400. He is beauti-
full roam six feet and four inches in
height, eleven feet and four inches
around the girt, three feet and four
inches between the hip points, and
eighteen feet from tip to tip. Kansas
also furnished the same party one of
the smallest, if not smallest COWS in
the world. 1t is five years old and
weighs $50 pounds, stands thirty-fonr
inches in height and yields three gall
Ions of milk per day.-Sabetha Repub-
Icd9l.
An English tenant farmer of large
experience says the most frequent cause
of dissatisfaction with live stock where
dissatisfaction exists is due to an effort
to reach results through large num-
Der of inferior animals maintained on
scant or inferior keep. The better way
is to entertain only such number of
animals as can be kept well. This is
sound doctrine, for no stock can yield
satisfactory profit unless well fed and
first-class animal upon good keep can
always be depended upon for a good
round profit. Breeders Gazette.
The usual fall bulletins are being
promulgated, claiming that the prob
lem of extracting the sugar of sorghum
has been successfully solved in Kansas.
The reports sent out from Fort Scott at
the beginning of the season stated then
that the works were turning out 10000
pounds of sugar per day, and that the
cane was yielding 100 to ITO pounds of
sugar to the ton. We are among those
who always had faith that sugar would
eventually be proftably made from sor-
ghu m, and we shall rejoice if these re-
ports be confirmed; but the experience
of past years justifies the allowance of a
wide margin for enthusiasm on the first
reports of the season concerning Kansas
Sugar.-Fdr1m and FireSide.